The Making of a Monster
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (558 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1497638844 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 292 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Still my favorite book" according to AmazonKate. I got this book off a supermarket rack and bought it on a whim. It has a fairly plain cover, and a cheesy back cover description, but I thought it might be a fun read. What I got though, was a phenominal story that I ended up staying up all night to finish.The storyline keeps you guessing, the charecters are believeable (insomuch as is possible given preternatural circumstances), the narrator and main charecter Kate is so well developed the reader finds themselves identifying with Kate right away, and then gets sucked down with her, into her gradual charecter shift from 'Suzie homemaker' to 'monster at heart'. And at each step the shift is s. "In the city of angels, she crossed over to the other side." Shortly after moving to Los Angeles from New York with her husband (Ben), 27-year-old Kate Davis meets a seductive man named Justin in her acting class, who she has a short but horrifying affair with. After that one night, Kate is made into a vampire against her will and then ultimately abandoned.After spending a couple years aimlessly roaming L.A.'s streets and befriending an elderly woman (Lil) who is later killed by a werewolf (Henry), Kate takes a gambling hiatus in Las Vegas, where her love for music is renewed. She then returns to Los Angeles to become a musician, by targeting and then snuffing out a band's (The Uninvited) bass player . Classic, Hip, Funny Vampire Book - Way Ahead of It's Time A Customer Really cool vampire novel about a female vampire in LA. I loved the detail of hearing about Kate (main character) changes as she first became a vampire, then hated it, then eventually learns to live with it. There's some great plot twists and a real sense of humor here and this vampire has a sense of morals that she doesn't want to have. A lot has been written about "Bitten" about a female werewolf being the latest thing but I think "The Making of A Monster" covered this territory back in 1993 and did it much better. I just ordered a used copy - since it's out of print and I no longer have my original one but I really think this should be pu
Caught between loathing her new self and losing touch with whom she once was, Kate is a soul torn between loathing and longing. Impervious to the night, she joins a rock and roll band and searches among those lost souls for companionship, always feeling like she does not belong. A chance meeting with a mysterious stranger has transformed this conventional wife into a creature that prowls the dark streets desperate to quench her need for blood. Facing a bloody struggle, Kate at last embraces her vampire nature and only then does the mystery of immortality explode.. But with one quick bite, it is her death that has been begun. Her move to Los Angeles was supposed to restart her life
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